Sentence examples for a modest hike from inspiring English sources

Overall, economists have become less worried about the job-destroying effects of a modest hike in the minimum wage.

We have been enjoying the greatest period of prosperity in the nation's history, but Ms. Chavez has steadfastly opposed even a modest hike in the minimum wage.

Yet no Democrat has presented anything bolder than a modest hike in the minimum wage that might bring its value, adjusted for inflation, to what that wage was worth in the late 1970's.

Surely, a modest hike in income taxes for people who make more than $400,000 in income and stupid enough not to take that money in capital gain would be worth trading off for the few hundred billion dollars in corporate pork.

Our own Dave Jamieson has the story of forgotten stakeholders -- minimum-wage workers who were looking forward to a modest hike in take-home pay -- who have had whatever measly uptick in fortune dashed to hell now by the demise of the payroll tax holiday.

This year, however, the president seeks a very modest hike in R&D funding to $530 million, from the $528 million approved by Congress.

The cheapest ticket for guests over the age of 10 rose to $104, a relatively modest hike from the previous price of $97.

The combination of tactics worked to end the strike and gain a modest pay hike for the miners.

Other counties, faced with a similar shortfall and a similarly wealthy populace, might have timidly proposed a modest tax hike, but Cobb County is tea-party country: its congressional representatives include Phil Gingrey, an OBGYN who thought Todd Akin was "partly right" when he said that pregnancy cannot result from "legitimate rape"; and Tom Price, another conservative doctor.

by cutting a deal with McConnell to shield people making $250,000 to $399,999 from a modest tax hike.

WASHINGTON -- Many of the nation's poorest workers were looking forward to a modest pay hike on New Year's Day, when 10 states implemented higher minimum wages.